Beta

Ββ Beta

Beta (uppercase Β, lowercase β, internal ϐ; Greek: Βήτα [ˈvita]) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 2. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Beth. Letters that arose from Beta include the Roman B and the Cyrillic letters Б and В.

In high-quality print, a variant of the letter is sometimes used that does not have a descender except at the beginning of a word: βίβλος is written βίϐλος. Lowercase ϐ is very common in handwriting.